by Jeff Wilson, copyright 1998
In a time that is past and yet is still to come, in a place far distant, yet close for those who know the way, the god Ferris wandered the universe, seeking a place to make his home. In his journeys he went many places, and discovered many things, but nowhere a place to claim as his own. So it was that one day he came upon a place that was empty. Though he could not make his home here (for there was nothing to make his home out of), he became curious and traveled the emptiness, seeking an understanding of it. So he traveled, and came to understand the nature of emptiness. This understanding pierced the shroud of ignorance the emptiness had attempted to lay. Know you that, while the emptiness was real, it was also a door. This door Ferris used to come to our lands, the lands of N'Ferra.
Here in N'Ferra, Ferris found the world, the sun, the moons, and the stars in their courses. He wandered all the lands, and when he was done, he knew he had found a place to call his own.
Still, though the worlds were full of life, it was a life that lacked understanding. There were none save Ferris to look and marvel and wonder and understand. Yet Ferris was undaunted, for among those who could not understand were those who could be taught. So Ferris took the ancestors of the Ch'vrr, Nurha, Nye, Rachak, Slahses, Seenee, and Varn and gave them the gifts of speech and fire, teaching them to look at the world in a new way.
Looking around, Ferris was pleased with what he had done. The people he had brought forth gave new views and new understanding to N'Ferra. Yet, as Ferris wandered, it occurred to him that there was more that could be done. In other lands, people were troubled, and there was still room in N'Ferra. So, from those who were troubled in those places, he then gathered the ancestors of the Bine, Fibrien, Gennen, Humans, Lon, and Pladone, and gave to each a world to fill.
In this way Ferris came to N'Ferra and brought the thirteen first families to make their homes here.